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Richard Godbeer |
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History · Social Science |
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Professional Reviews
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Taylor, Alan, New Republic: "Indeed, [Godbeer's] book succeeds most fully as a sprightly description of sexual escapades, offering colorful anecdotes that tease our conventional expectations of stuffy colonists." |
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Format: Hardcover, 430
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr (April 05, 2002)
Measurements: 9"(h) x 6.25"(w) x 1.5"(d), 1.6 lbs.
ISBN: 9780801868009 |
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In 1695, John Miller, a clergyman traveling through New York, found it appalling that so many couples lived together without ever being married and that no one viewed "ante-nuptial fornication" as anything scandalous or sinful. Charles Woodmason, an Anglican minister in South Carolina in 1766, described the region as a "stage of debauchery" in which polygamy was "very common," "concubinage general," and "bastardy no disrepute." These depictions of colonial North America's sexual culture sharply contradict the stereotype of Puritanical abstinence that persists in the popular imagination.<BR> In SEXUAL REVOLUTION IN AMERICA, Richard Godbeer boldly overturns conventional wisdom about the sexual values and customs of colonial Americans. His eye-opening historical account spans two centuries and most of British North America, from New England to the Caribbean, exploring the social, political, and legal dynamics that shaped a diverse sexual culture. Drawing on exhaustive research into diaries, letters, and other |
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